FAIC does so much every year to support and protect cultural heritage.
As FAIC plans for the future, focusing on urgent priorities including sustainability, social justice, and climate change, we know that many unpredictable challenges will come our way. If you are able, we ask you consider a gift that will grow and strengthen FAIC to continue this essential work. We also thank those of you who already have and continue to support FAIC with your generous gifts.
If you would like to learn more about FAIC and support the work we do, you can donate here.
FAIC's ongoing projects are varied and reach every aspect of cultural heritage. For example, FAIC:
- Deploys volunteer teams and supplies to help collecting institutions after an emergency, like our recent support of Appalshop, an archive in Kentucky that experienced severe flooding. A team of National Heritage Responders have been helping recover records.
- Supports 100 conservation assessments so that small, local museums can better care for their collection and site--all of which helps them better serve their communities. New awardees in 2022 included the Bristol Bay Historical Society in Naknek, Alaska, the Circus Hall of Fame in Peru, Indiana, and the Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center, Louisville, Kentucky.
- Provides 12 free webinars to small and mid-sized collecting institutions with limited resources to support their staff. The webinars help them with everything from security to debunking myths about conservation.
- Provides a free web tool to calculate and compare greenhouse emissions from conservation materials and processes, allowing conservators and others who work with collections to make sustainable choices.
- Awards more than $300,000 in scholarships and fellowships, encouraging research, collaboration, and growth across the country. (And even abroad!)
- Presents more than 25 professional development events that give conservators the tools and skills needed to care for cultural heritage. This year's workshops focused on topics including large format photographs, dealing with metal threads, and care of Asian paintings.
- Engages with exciting new opportunities, like examining the current state of conservation and planning for the future of the field, recording oral histories, creating local emergency networks, and much more!
- Supports Conservation OnLine (CoOL) and ensures our moderated Global Conservation Forum is freely available to more than 10,000 conservation and preservation professionals around the world.
Many of these projects are funded in part or whole by donations - individual donations made by people like you, in both small amounts and larger bequests. Every dollar helps! Please consider supporting FAIC and its programs, particularly in the General Fund, by
donating online or mailing a check. Questions about FAIC or donating can be sent to Executive Director Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe at
lissa@culturalheritage.org.